Thomas Percival

Thomas Percival ( born September 29, 1740 in Warrington, † August 30 1804 in Manchester ) was an English physician and author of the first guideline on medical ethics.

Life

Thomas Percival was born on 29 September 1740 in Warrington, Lancashire. Since he became a full orphan at the age of three years, took over an older sister 's education. After the school visit Thomas Percival went to Edinburgh to study medicine. On July 6, 1765, he was appointed in Dutch suffering for MD, and a bit later to become a member of the Royal Society.

After practicing a short time in Warrington as a doctor, he moved to Manchester in 1767, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. The states in the workers' quarters in Manchester 18th century led him to write several documents on the subject of public health care ( see below). As followers of a utilitarian philosophy, he pleaded for a health care that should reach as many and sat down for life for the implementation of these in Manchester one. On August 30, 1804 Thomas Percival died in Manchester and was later buried in Warrington.

Main works

• Essays, Medical and Experimental ( 1767)
• Internal regulation of Hospitals (1771 )
• A Scheme of Professional Conduct Relative to Hospitals and other Medical Charities ( 1772)
• Essays, Medical, Philosophical and Experimental (1773 )
• A Father's Instruction ( dreibändig 1775-1800 )

• Physician (18th century)
• Born in 1740
• Died in 1804
• Man